diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
index 67cde23d9abfffda1726d565abf4d945851e33a7..072fd8eaac3c3d46bda3e5c090a6a04aa0025adb 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec.in
+++ b/libvirt.spec.in
@@ -1027,14 +1027,6 @@ fi
 %if %{with_systemd}
 %else
 /sbin/chkconfig --add libvirt-guests
-if [ $1 -ge 1 ]; then
-    level=$(/sbin/runlevel | /bin/cut -d ' ' -f 2)
-    if /sbin/chkconfig --levels $level libvirt-guests; then
-        # this doesn't do anything but allowing for libvirt-guests to be
-        # stopped on the first shutdown
-        /sbin/service libvirt-guests start > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
-    fi
-fi
 %endif
 
 %postun client -p /sbin/ldconfig